film reviews
'John Wick: Chapter 4' Abandons Vulnerability in Favour of More Blam, Blam, Blam
Directed by Chad Stahelski
PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2023
There is a scene in John Wick: Chapter 2 that is pivotal in John Wick's (Keanu Reeves) crusade against the seedy and sprawling underworld c...
'Boston Strangler' Shows the Humanity Behind True-Crime Stories
Directed by Matt Ruskin
PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2023
There is a photograph of journalist and newspaper editor Agness "Aggie" Underwood, one of the first women to hold the editorship role at a...
The Powerful 'Riceboy Sleeps' Tells a Universal Immigrant Story
Directed by Anthony Shim
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2023
There's a quiet beauty and grief to Riceboy Sleeps. The second feature film by Vancouver's Anthony Shim explores well-worn ground: the immi...
Dave Letterman Brings U2 Down to Earth — Sort of — with 'A Sort of Homecoming'
Directed by Morgan Neville
PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2023
Bono's recent memoir, Surrender, is pretty much everything U2 skeptics would expect: the singer's stories of his humble origins in Dublin a...
'Therapy Dogs' Captures the Malaise of Adolescence in Suburban Ontario
Directed by Ethan Eng
PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2023
Picture it: you're 17 at your friend's house, and his parents are gone for the weekend, so he decides to throw a party. In a moment of quie...
'Brother' Is a Powerful Slice of Scarborough Life
Directed by Clement Virgo
PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2023
"Follow my every step," Francis (Aaron Pierre) instructs his younger brother Michael (Lamar Johnson), confidence reverberating through his...
Jenna Ortega Played Against Type in Solid 'SNL' Episode
March 11, 2023
PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2023
Jenna Ortega was a great, dynamic host, playing up how she's perceived, and the 1975 rose to the occasion with their slick but loose brand...
'Luther: The Fallen Sun' Can't Solve the Case of Its Own Predictable Formula
Directed by Jamie Payne
PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2023
Where all my Lutherans at? Since its debut in 2010, Idris Elba and creator/writer Neil Cross has given us 20 episodes of (mostly) televisio...